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A 3-0 swing that Weiss is still talking about Most hitters take the pitch there. Matt Olson did not. Up 3-0 in the count on Sunday, he drove one to the deepest part of the ballpark, and the Braves turned a 2-2 game into a 5-3 win over Arizona with a three-run seventh. Walt Weiss…

Six homers in 14 games Alec Burleson is in the best form of his career. The Cardinals first baseman has hit .340/.441/.780 over 50 at-bats in 14 games this month. Six homers, 19 RBIs, 13 runs. Sunday was more of the same. Three hits in five trips against the Cubs, a homer, a double, four…

Down 5-0? So what On Sunday in Minneapolis, the Phillies looked done. Five runs down. A team that had stumbled to a 10-15 record since the All-Star Game they hosted back home. Alec Bohm drove in four runs on his own. Bryan De La Cruz delivered the go-ahead hit in the eighth inning. 7-5 the…

Six home runs and a .780 slugging mark in August. Alec Burleson carries the hottest bat in St. Louis into a doubleheader at Cincinnati today.

Wyatt Langford turned on the first pitch he saw in the sixth and sent it 421 feet. Texas snapped a four-game skid and climbed back into the last American League wild-card spot.

Twenty-one starts, and not one win at home Reid Detmers had not won in front of his own crowd in 21 starts. He picked a good night to fix that, blanking Kansas City over eight innings in Anaheim. The Angels won 1-0. The number deserves a second look. Detmers had been sharing the American League…

Four and a half games, and a weekend that went wrong fast Detroit arrived in Chicago with a chance to climb. They left further away than when they showed up. The White Sox took Friday 9-5, then survived a 4-3 grinder on Saturday, and the lead in the American League Central now sits at four…

Two one-run wins and suddenly everything looks different Baltimore took the first two games of the series in St. Petersburg. Two one-run wins. The second went to extra innings on Saturday night, sealed by Tyler O’Neill’s decisive single. Final score: 4-3. Craig Albernaz had already set the tone before first pitch. His team sold off…

Twenty homers, and the 26th multi-homer night of a long career Nolan Arenado has been doing this since 2013. He did it again in Atlanta. The third baseman hit two home runs last night as the Arizona Diamondbacks ran over the Braves 10-3 to take the three-game series. He went 2-for-4 with a walk, three…